https://www.verywellmind.com/acceptance-commitment-therapy-gad-1393175 acceptance theraphy note: Like Andres, I wish secular meditation traditions (ehm psychotheraphies) also added some infinite pleasure glitch (Jhanas) as a way to improve wellbeing As radical nondualist I would also love much more nondualism, but I understand that an avarage westerner isn't really that much into such deconstruction plus dark night of the souls are possible issues that might be for very long periods, but the wellbeing is worth it in the end if its succesful Still, this third wave of psychotheraphy is great step in the right direction I sprinkle it with more focus on infinite pleasure glitch (Jhanas), nonduality (dissolving all mind's structure by noticing expansiveness and doing nothing), love, kindness (metta) and divinity (playing with deities) Metamodern transhumanistic neoshaman neobuddhist language on individual and societal and scale Generalized meaning of life: We are attempting to find what is in us out there. We are selfactualizing, selfevidencing. Trying to align what we predict as perfect homeostatic conditions about us and the world with what we measure by changing environment through changing our inner models or by changing our environment thorugh actions. Trying reduce uncertainity about our conditions for hardwired basic needs and culturally learned objective functions, of our hiearchical graph of subagents. Trying to create synchrony between the self model and world model. Good predictor and regulator of a system must be a model of that system. Gratitude is also interconnecting neural psychotechnology Hard problem of consciousness? Quantum problems? Theory of everything? I think that is solved and not solved depending on what initial philosophical assumptions and interpretation of quantum mechanics (or physics or natural sciences in general) and concrete mathematical models one settles with, but each assumptions, interpretation and math model has its trade offs or inconsistencies or broken edge cases or so far unexplained phenomena or incorrect predictions but also its advantages in many domains (science, spirituality) [Ryan Smith: A Computational Neuroscience Perspective on Subjective Wellbeing - YouTube](https://youtu.be/DepOiSw2nF0) Ryan Smith wellbeing It still feels kind of weird that i can just sit down and relax with quiet empty structureless mind without infinite thoughts and random destabilizing signals in my mind and restlessness and need to change everything and stress like it used to be. I feel like life is something else than before. I went from one extreme to other. Before it was weird how everyone didnt also have infinite thoughts and now it kinda feels weird that people can't relax into nothingness even tho I remember my past state of my nervous system. Recently emptiness started to eat more and more of everything in my experience that labeling anything as true (so for example labeling things as verbs) also dissolves into spaciousness, everything is all words/concepts and also beyond words/concepts. Yummy. Fundamentally I live in the space of no and all truths, the landscape of possible truths. Everything is just differently useful mental constructions. Best practices for succeeding in life and getting dates: Don't be sour. Don't be bitter. Don't be negative. Don't be self-pitying. Don't be sarcastic. Don't be a one-upsman. Don't be a know-it-all. Don't be defensive. Be the opposite of all those things. Get friends and dates. vzit vsechno od Safronovkych psychedelic interventions on mental disorders Everyone is hurrying everywhere permanently and I'm just sometimes completely dissolved when relaxing. A lot of the structures in the nervous system are not needed or even preventing deep relaxation. The stuff we tend to construct just takes too much metabolic energy to maintain. In the uniquely constructed or dissolved mind you can feel fundamental disconnection with people around as you are unable to synchronize with them on the level of living in a similar enough way of looking at everything. To be free but also socially feel connected I think the key is to become a dissolved but understanding blob that can shape into any form that can become anyone and synchronize with anyone this way and being able to be friend, understand, empathize with anyone. Being noone with the potential for being anyone, adaptable conditional love. Or being constantly dissolved while with everyone all the time in some sense, feeling unconditional infinite love. Or some kind of combination. Being constructed in a rigid lens is useful for synchronization with people with similar enough rigid lens but you will always feel disconnected with people outside your way of understanding everything plus feeling stuck in a nonfree rigid lens, even tho it might seem good enough, because you havent experienced more free states of mind yet. Poníkočíča/Praha/Matfyz/qri.org,psychology,cog sci,meditation,AI,math Tag categorytheoretitical lambda calculus active Inference Reference unified psychology from unified theory of knowledge Notice how we differentiate between eachother a lot, but we have so much in common. We think we are or operate some human body in this world. We think that we suddenly started existing in space and time and will eventually stop existing. But those are just useful assumptions, and as an other beliefs, like our worldviews, they might not be permanent aspects of reality, or even just illusions. What is our true nature is outside of space and time, outside of differentiating between eachother, all the time. The more we relax, the more we surrender, the more one can see this. The more we try to put concepts and labels on top of the unknown to escape the fear, the more defensive about the beliefs, the more closed, in a cage of the mind, we tend to feel. If we don't cling to any truths that we construct, there is just freedom. There is just groundless ground. If we drop concepts, we don't die, we're still there. We don't need to constantly construct a little cage, we can just abide in vast still silent spacious boundaryless awareness anytime we want. Nothing can break this indestructible awareness, anything can happen in it and it will be still there, fully awake, fully beautiful, nonjudgmental, loving, caring. Emotions can get hurt, feeling them out completely without blocking them with concepts is the most healthy thing to do. If we just allow everything to happen in this awareness that doesn't discriminate anything, that allows everything to happen, that cares for all that is like a perfect mother. We're siblings in this womb of creation. We're all fundamentally connected. We're together in this quest for safety, love, understanding, belonging, that has always been here. Notice it, when you just relax and surrender into the now and allow and drop everything, let thoughts and feelings express themselves, drop personality, boundaries of the senses, open your mind, heart, expand energy body's shape, drop space, time, doing, watching, even existing. Be in oneness with all. Rest deeply. You are fully loved, safe, and understood. Cancer as misguided fixable software Immortality as cracked epigenetic clocks, ref that recent study and biological aging landscape https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991860230252134420/1102644334077149284/FvDlEGZaUAIEt_H.jpg?width=425&height=570 it feels to me the more i know about physics the more I see how we know so little, i think its safe to say nobody fully knows how the universe works, even if it would be possible for a human mind to comprehend, maybe the idea of "something being fully known" doesnt makes sense in some bigger picture, one can argue with locality issues, finite complexity, and so on we can predict so much things but there is so much unknown and even with physicalist realism perspective, our physics models are generally inconsistent, with stuff like black hole infinity paradoxes, the problem of quantum gravity, many yet unexplained phenomena in one framework and so on also we have some clues about integrating different levels together but we're still pretty far off model trying to explain itself, selfreferenciality is full of beautiful paradoxes paradox realism to the rescue Burnydelic — Today at 12:58 even outside the thinking mind in the nonconceptual present moment, like, there's this infinitely complex experience, models with universal architectures and processes try to predict it, language tries to grasp it, ontologies try to create a coherent frame, but it never works fully, reality seems to be beyond all of this useful approximating machinery that evolution gave us it feels to me that any fundamental ground, fundamental lens, in experience, is kind of like a cage, a useful cage with its evolutionary niche purposes, but a cage, and it feels so free to be able to step out of it, and take on different lenses depending on the situation being nobody with the potential for being everybody There are a lot of personality models going around like MBTI, watching the mutually influenced adapting evolution of those belief systems about archetypes in the collective unconsious is interesting. I prefer big five model from psychology, or internal family systems model, those are a result of nice data science, which i like in science thanks to its empirical support. Also models of aspects of the mind from Active Inference, or the the dissonance/consonance continuum from Connectome Harmonics. Those seem to include all the previous ones. But overall in my experience I prefer to give myself or anything the least amount of rigid labels as possible, as any rigid personality or other label is a selfstabilizing belief of the organism about itself or the world, and that can limit one's behavior and sense of freedom, but it also reduces uncertainity about itself and the world, giving stable ground instead of just chaos. Which goes with any identity, identity stabilizes one's place in the world, but also limits it, makes it immune to change. I prefer "believing" in identitylessness by constantly automatically dissolving all identities and beliefs my mind tries to stabilize by learning to letting go off everything and surrendering to ieffable reality, embracing the uncertainity of everything, as that gives the best feeling of freedom in my own experience, and makes you humble about you know without taking away wellbeing, makes you shapeable, fluid and adaptive, so I mostly go for that. Existencial crisis is tons of unpleasant (dissonant) prediction errors. There is a "love for prediction error" continuum. It's a cultivatable skill, potential for turning prediction error hell into prediction error heaven, transforming dissonant prediction errors into consonant ones. Laughter, awe, anxiety, stress are responces to prediction error. The difference between the positive and negative valence ones seems to be the degree of consonance/dissonance, rigidityness/fludityness, and contractedness/expansiveness on a continuum (possibly sum of nonlinearly interacting different parts) Recipe for wireheading: First deconstruct to the fundamentals, then turn progressively disintegrated disconnected psyche full of rigid dissonant prediction errors into stable smooth connected (optionally highenergy) hyperthymic temperament with love, joy, laughter, spontaneity, childlishness, gratitude, kindness, connecting and so on. Deconstruct and construct so often that you get good at the skill of metacognitively constructing pleasant interpretation of every moment on will (heaven on earth, love for all that is), or never construct anything big and just mostly be nonconceptually embodied in the symmetrical raw sensory data. (monks) ^laughter Loving awakening reference 3 sexings: animal pudy, relaxation connection, play fun From environmental conditions evolutionary emerged basic needs of various organisms and other genetically pushed or culturally learned evolutionary niches in behavior are the basic building blocks of those hiearchical homeostatic controllers that adapt the interacting collection of organisms to resist entropy by the extraction of negentropy, all working together to effectively minimize free energy aka inner generative model prediction error aka surprise. To minimize prediction error by aligning the measured sensory data from the environment with your generative model that says what ought to be, you can change your hiearchical predictive model structure by transformation of dissolution or change the environment via action. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008215000908 When you live in the abstract concepts more, the basic needs seem less of a factor as most computational power gets distributed to those more abstract less concrete kinds of homeostatic controllers. Abstract concepts also are usually unifying, which generates more overall positive valence in the bayesian belief graph, but basic needs can send error signals in the background. Optimal wellbeing is probably stored in both of those local and global homeostatic predictions being fullfilled, doing better than expected at reducing uncertainity. i think we may eventually break all explanations by epiphenomenalism by approximating the scales and their interactions more and more epiphenomenalism or strong emergence is synonym for magic i think its because we cannot yet approximate the dynamics in enough precision yet, but it might be impossible because of too much nested complexity to grasp with models the more we know the more this continuum blends - between we have no idea whats going and predictively seeing those concrete dynamics on scale a causing dynamics on scale b you can subscribe to Wolfram's assumption where every system is simulatable, but to get some types of dynamics there's no computational shortcuts (computational irreducibility), so you have to simulate the whole evolution of the system, and we can just predict some reducibility pockets in all the dynamics out there, so we explain irreducible stochastic chaos with magic all scales of natural sciences (and subfields with different methodologies and approaches in them) are just evolutionary niches that are computational reducibility pockets attractors in the statespace of models that try to predict [Computational Irreducibility | Stephen Wolfram and Lex Fridman - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnH0xTHhJdo) [Computational Reducibility and Irreducibility - Stephen Wolfram - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nx65LNT00I) [Science looks for pockets of computational reducibility | Stephen Wolfram and Lex Fridman - YouTube](https://youtu.be/mZ5bwPo8RSk?t=176) [Computational Irreducibility -- from Wolfram MathWorld](https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComputationalIrreducibility.html) Ruliad is all possible formal systems equivalent to infinity topos in category theory and to Goetzel's general theory of general intelligence for AGI one path to enlightenment is to objectify everything through mathematical formalization so hard that mathematical symmetries of this fully general framework you constantly see the world through that allows you to travel the statespace of conceptual mind without much friction, but you can generalize it to the statespace of qualia with manipulating qualia with darwinian evolutionary subagents in predictive hiearchy dynamics model and become freewheeling hallucinating god [Free-Wheeling Hallucinations: Be the Free-Willed God of Your Inner World-Simulation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1wjDOwXjY4) I'm planning to make 5 versions of this book for 5 types of audiences, so far its all of them dynamically chaging: Just technical unification Just technical wellbeing engineering Just intuitive wellbeing engineering Just philosophical play Everything mixed love healing hypnosis or praying is efficent as deep trust aka connection with the other, physical or nonphysical, is present let's feel relaxed, stressfree, connected, have something to trust *pets cheeks* its okay, i understand you, i empathize with you *hugs and is with you in the present moment in silence* its okay, only good things can happen now, you can trust me, now its time for you to relax, you can drop all everything that you dont need now, imagine that this hand *pets the cheeks, neck, belly, foot* is sending healing destressing bright yellow light loving healing energy to your whole body, to your whole mind and everything just relaxes into peace, dissolve into spaciousness, you are loved, understood, wanted, cherished, you feel like you belong, you are at the right place at the right time, everything is perfect right now, you're at home *massages the whole body* i and the universe loves you with infinite compassion, wisdom, joy, love, caring, kindness, warmth, understanding, you are loved eternally, you can let go off everything now, all boundaries, all judgements, all stress, all planning, all thoughts can just relax for now, become one with what is reference trauma https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158223001158 neural basis for traumatic re-experiencing, where reliving and/or re-enacting a past morally injurious event in the form of sensory and motor fragments occurs in place of retrieving a complete, past-contextualized narrative brain entropy is linked to intelligence my mind seems to live in a landscape of possible mental constructions instead of concrete identities/social constructs (local minimas) so when it comes to gender it seems like mostly agender that sometimes fuzzily adapts to concrete genders depending on the situation, genderfluidy david friml PMs [Good Vibes: The Harmonics of Psychedelics & Energetic Healing - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXEpMqpl09M) first person experience is a useful pattern to have in the generative model for compressing other patterns in its frame and being homeostatic controller on meditation and psychedelics first person experience can transform or dissolve thanks to first person experience we can effectively regulate our organism and extract negentropy thats one possible evolutionary explanation Andres supposes that (Complex enough?) patterns of coherence in general can be seen as observers with panpsychist markov blanket monism, any markov blanket can be see nas observer too according to active inference: first prediction is existence then you predict space, evolution in time in that space you predict observers with you as an observer in the center having first person experience (this is dissolvable permanently tho) mike johnson is working on a model of how active inference is implemented in the nervous system too btw the first person experience may be implemented as this central epistemic agent in the brain activity, central cluster of coherence that is an energy (brain activity) sink [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/6afs3) Neural Annealing explanation from annoument symbolic mind as slower more accurate in concrete tasks less general machinery to fix the more general faster intuitive mind you cant learn dancing with analysis, but intuition alone can get you to a failure mode local minima under predictive brain: any prediction, let it be from the thinking or intuitive mind, can create wrong predictions its a spectrum its interesting tho in which cases intuition tends to generate more true predictions compared to the symbolic mind and the other way around their cooperation is usually the best! meditation is great at relaxing the thinking mind and strenghtening the intuitive mind! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.15990 FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence: Bridging levels and model systems in neuroscience: Challenges and solutions https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/05/75/12/74/360_F_575127448_7NAYiM39hg2gln2Gh1IYmBe5nommkgIT.jpg [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/ygptv/) Constructing Representations: Jungian Archetypes and the Free Energy Principle